the former president but it s field day going after ron desantis. how do you see the chris christie entrance potentially changing things? i think christie is one that has landed effective blows on trump. that is the exception to the rule. the base doesn t love christy. christie did very well in debate against marco rubio in 2016. rubio did win states and christie did not. that s the key. can christy land some blows and fortify himself as opposed to others? listen, i think christie is getting in. i think he s talked some really tough trash talking. i don t think he can back down now. can he actually win a state and get that momentum? that remains to be seen. i m skeptical. neil: 2016 had a crowded field.
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to make sure those doors were locked. so i asked over the radio and i say something to the effect that we need direction. we have hundreds of people inside of the building. what do you want us to do? we need some direction. i got i heard no response. . w no response.hyt and why didn tth the house and senate leadership act on the intel agencies warnings before w january six ? w i mean, forget schumer. we know what he s all about. why isn t mitch mcconnell demanding, demanding answers here? mitch nnelwell, he s not. instead, he hit fox today. and mitch wonders why so many working people don t trust him, why the republican base doesn t base the establishment, has no one to blame but themselves forn the state of affairs our nation finds ourselves in. whetheblame but themser it s th, the vaccine mandates or happpentagon on what s happening in ukraine or biden ur downplaying inflation throughout most of 2020 one , they ve fallen into a trapro.
election, the senate races and now this one. clearly that base doesn t win you the majority you need to control the senate, to get the white house. how do they reconcile that contradiction? reporter: well, i don t clearly they re not thinking about math because since 2015 the party has been one of division and not multiplication and addition. the streets are littered with republican casualties from jeff flake to liz cheney to will herd, folks who realize what happened when they went against the trump. the party decided to push out good conservatives like adam kinzinger and liz cheney. they re not trying to grow, but they haven t put in the work to reach out to moderate republicans and moderates and right of center voters. they have to, i think in their minds, double and triple down on
about ilhan omar, she s a bigot. boebert is a bigot. but most importantly lauren boebert incited violence against another fellow member of congress. she called a fellow member of congress a suicide bomber. the scary thing, though, jessica, is lauren boebert is exactly where the republican party base is. you and i consider what she said to be outrageous. the base doesn t. it is outrageous. and to just sit there and listen to it, you hear her getting laughs from the crowd there, it is clearly done for laughs. and she s probably going to fund-raise off of it and make a fair amount of money for her re-election campaign. it boggles the mind, but to your point, that s where her base, that s where the republican party base is right now. that s the danger. look, lauren boebert is who she is. jessica, the danger for all of us is the republican party base